The Panther Squad, Leather Clad Vixen Saves World

Sybil Danning! Yep, the exploitation queen always pleases. NASA and the space program have bored the entire world over the past 40 years...Sybil Danning has only aroused that same world.The space shuttle program only has drawn yawns from schoolchildren waiting to be thrilled...Sybil Danning has brought those same school children through puberty. The United Nations has been the epitome of the word  "impotent." Sybil Danning has cured impotency in many men. Today we look at one of Sybil Danning's best films, from Belgium, 1984's "The Panther Squad."

Okay, a U.N. type organization has taken over the space program. Uh oh, an idiotic environmental group called "Clean Space" is bent on ending the space program. This organization, headed by blonde vixen Barbara (Karin Schubert) kidnaps the only spacebabe able to fly the new "Space Jeep." Jane Danteen is a sultry astronaut and her abduction means the end of the space program. Mega babe, and mercenary, Ilona (Danning) heads The Panther Squad. Ilona dresses in leather pants and a revealing leather top. Her gals on the squad don bikinis, skimpy pink togas, and short leather skirts. They have machine guns and wonderful smiles. They hook up with useless secret agent Frank (Jack Taylor) in search of the abducted spacebabe.

The squad moves on a yacht which they believe has Jane, held hostage.The bikini babes will get into some gratuitous fights but be overtaken. Ilona, on a dirt-bike, and the rest of her nubile mercenaries will follow the thugs who have abducted their bikini clad squad mates. Now Ilona and the full force of The Panther Squad will war against the vixen Barbara and some Daniel Ortega lunatic who wants to use spacebabe Jane and her ship to use nukes to enslave the world. Leather clad Ilona and her babes will fight heroically and look really good doing it.

Do we have some nice cat-fights brewing between Barbara and Jane, or Ilona and Barbara, or bikini squad members and anyone? If Clean Space knew how useless the shuttle program would prove to be, would they have bothered to kidnap spacebabe Jane? Is this film Europe's dig at the Carter Administration for their failed efforts to rescue the hostages in Iran, a few years earlier? Whether a critical piece denoting the failure of the Carter Administration, or just some gratuitous cheesy fun, "The Panther Squad" is a must see.